Seattle, Washington
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
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Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.
Danbury, Connecticut
Star-spangled and 38 feet tall.
Bishop, California
The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.
Holmdel, New Jersey
The real-life ‘Severance’ office building.
Lancashire, England
This abandoned Brutalist tower looming over the M6 Motorway once featured a restaurant.
Petaluma, California
A public art installation featuring clawfoot bathtubs on stilts sparks admiration and controversy from locals.
Poughkeepsie, New York
A building made mostly of cast iron features a 1:45 scale lego model of its self.
Old Station, California
A large lava tube that can be walked through with no special equipment.
Memphis, Tennessee
The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.
Washington, D.C.
The Lincoln Memorial has inspired many, even though a word on the inscription appears to be spelled incorrectly.
Belvedere Tiburon, California
Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.
San Rafael, California
Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.
Napa, California
Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.
Sonoma, California
The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.
Inverness, California
This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.
Inverness, California
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
Inverness, California
An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.
Northampton, Massachusetts
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stop thieves at the site of a historic 1876 bank robbery.
Albany, New York
The largest Walmart Supercenter in the United States, referred to affectionately as “Mallmart,” has served the residents of Albany, New York, since 1994.
Delmar, Delaware
This relic is one of the last survivors of the earliest eras of the American railroad.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Norden, California
A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.
Hawaiian Beaches, Hawaii
The easternmost point of Hawai'i plays a prominent role in local legends and is home to a lighthouse that survived a lava flow.